GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ANALYSING OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES AND MORBIDITY IN ARAD COUNTY AND ROMANIA

摘要

Occupational medicine is the medical discipline which studies the work effect on employee’s health and also the employee’s health effect on the capability of maintaining work at its higher standards. The knowledge of the structure of occupational morbidity has a crucial importance because it represents the effect of occupational exposure to harmful factors in the working environment. Furthermore, when this effect is already known, it may be addressed through different preventive measures. The evolution of occupational diseases in Romania: Although in constant decrease from 2007, 2008 and 2009, in 2010, 1065 new occupational diseases were discovered. The incidence of occupational diseases in 2010 to 100,000 inhabitants in Arad County is 26.13 compared to 22.31 at a national level. In 2011, at a national level, the most common diseases are caused by overtaxing the locomotion system. Secondly, we can find diseases caused by silicosis followed by maladies caused by noise and vibration. Furthermore, bronchial asthma and infections are other important causes that may produce occupational diseases. Analyzing the evolution of these diseases, we can observe a decrease in the incidence of occupational morbidity, which can lead to some crucial explanations: improvement of the working conditions, underreporting the number of the exposed, there are many unreported cases of occupational diseases, failure to attend a regular medical control in order to confirm the exact diagnosis, limited number of occupational medicine doctors in the county.